The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... employ himself in drawing water , carrying burdens , and other such humble and laborious occupations . He con- trived , however to proceed with his studies at the same time , bringing his fee of an obolus , or penny , every day to his ...
... employ himself in drawing water , carrying burdens , and other such humble and laborious occupations . He con- trived , however to proceed with his studies at the same time , bringing his fee of an obolus , or penny , every day to his ...
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... employed , all chrystallized substances of the same species might be reduced to the same primitive form . This idea he pursued with exceeding ingenuity ; till , by means not only of his unparalleled dexterity in the dissec- tion of ...
... employed , all chrystallized substances of the same species might be reduced to the same primitive form . This idea he pursued with exceeding ingenuity ; till , by means not only of his unparalleled dexterity in the dissec- tion of ...
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... employed to copy precedents . LINNAEUS , the founder of the science of Botany , although the son of the clergyman of a small village in Sweden , was for some time apprenticed to a shoemaker ; and was only rescued from his humble em ...
... employed to copy precedents . LINNAEUS , the founder of the science of Botany , although the son of the clergyman of a small village in Sweden , was for some time apprenticed to a shoemaker ; and was only rescued from his humble em ...
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... employed in his childhood as a shepherd , and ob- tained his education by serving as a lacquey in the College of Navarre . The Danish astronomer , Lon- GOMONTANUS , was the son of a labourer , and , while attending the academical ...
... employed in his childhood as a shepherd , and ob- tained his education by serving as a lacquey in the College of Navarre . The Danish astronomer , Lon- GOMONTANUS , was the son of a labourer , and , while attending the academical ...
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... employed . His brother , we are informed by Sir Everard Home , his first and best biographer , gave him an arm to dissect , so as to display the muscles , with directions how it should be done ; and the performance of the pupil , even ...
... employed . His brother , we are informed by Sir Everard Home , his first and best biographer , gave him an arm to dissect , so as to display the muscles , with directions how it should be done ; and the performance of the pupil , even ...
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Стр. 386 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Стр. 83 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine...
Стр. 23 - Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Стр. 223 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Стр. 301 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 257 - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
Стр. 221 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Стр. 383 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 224 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.